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04-MAY-2010

A Box of Memories

May Challenge: Memories

Actually, it's not so much a boxful of memories as the box evokes memories. First it is of a store, Sibley's that is no longer. I remember going downtown with my mother once a year to shop...We'd go out to the Manhattan Restaurant (also no more). And it also has a note on it in my grandmother's handwriting. In the upper left corner she wrote: 2 dinner plates, 2 cakes plate, 4 saucers, 2 cups. (I'm thinking that 2 of the saucers were bread-and-butter plates). This was part of her wedding present to us. I'd never shopped for china before and so bought total of 10 pieces, naively believing it was 10 place settings. Imagine my mother and grandmother wondering how I bought 10 place settings so cheap. Well, it was only 2! My grandmother has been gone many years now but I cannot throw out the box because she wrote on it.

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LynnH06-May-2010 19:05
LOL, love the story to go with the box. Nice of you to keep it!
Bill Reed06-May-2010 02:47
Nice one, great image.
Fred Gary05-May-2010 23:14
Nice shot and great memories.
Stephanie05-May-2010 15:04
I too have old boxes that I cannot part with. Wonderful memory Brenda! :)
Also, newlyweds don't need more than 2 place settings, do they?
Kerry Tingley05-May-2010 14:04
All you need is 2 place settings when you are a newly wed. ;-)
Kerry Tingley05-May-2010 14:03
A wondeful memory Brenda!
Mieke WA Minkjan05-May-2010 07:18
I would not chuck out the box either...great story and image
Chris05-May-2010 06:30
I wonder if you still have any of the china?
What a sweet story.
borisalex05-May-2010 05:33
This is a sooo...beautiful story and your heart is so full of this memory, it really shows! V.
Leo05-May-2010 03:13
Your photo brought back memories for me as well. Presents from my sister in Rochester to my family in Westport came from Sibley's. Good choice!
carol j. phipps05-May-2010 02:06
Sweet and precious memory and keepsake box.
Jola Dziubinska04-May-2010 23:29
Nice story, well done.
Kathryn04-May-2010 21:59
What a great memory - it is the simple things that just mean so much to us.
Guest 04-May-2010 21:33
Nice memory Brenda, I wouldn't be able to throw it away either!!!!
Ed McConnell04-May-2010 20:47
very nice Brenda.
franz04-May-2010 20:40
La boîte à secrets de famille! BV Brenda.
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